{"type":"article","show_header_text":false,"header":"Articles","query":" (per=\"Stern, David Joel (1942- )\" or ((per like \"Stern, David\" OR per = \"STERN, DAVID DAVID STERN\" OR per = \"STERN, DAVID ANDREW DAVID STERN\") and des=\"BASKETBALL\")) and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"Letter\" and tom!=\"List\"","search_query":"(persons:\"Stern, David Joel \\(1942- \\)\" OR ((persons.contains:\"Stern, David\" OR persons:\"STERN, DAVID DAVID STERN\" OR persons:\"STERN, DAVID ANDREW DAVID STERN\") AND subject:\"BASKETBALL\")) AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"Letter\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\"","num_search_articles":"15","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":false,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"","more_on_header":"","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

January 26, 2014, Sunday

In what he said would be his final news conference as N.B.A. commissioner, Stern said the ultimate aim was to have a European division with perhaps five teams in major cities like London, Berlin and Paris.